Attending Physician, Pediatric Surgery; Director of Trauma Services

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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Dr. Kabre is a pediatric surgeon who specializes in traditional and minimally invasive treatment of a wide variety of congenital and acquired conditions across the age spectrum, including anomalies of respiratory and digestive tract, abdomen, esophagus, diaphragm and intestines.

Dr. Kabre is an expert in pediatric trauma and directs the pediatric trauma service at Lurie Children’s Hospital. She is also a nationally recognized authority on the treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome, a rare condition marked by abnormal pressure, compression and possible damage of nerves and blood vessels located in the lower neck and upper chest area.

As a clinician, Dr. Kabre believes that the practice of medicine requires more than technical knowledge and scientific acumen. It takes an ability to engage, listen and empathize with patients and their families and understand the dynamics that shape their emotional responses to their illness and injury.

As a physician-scientist, Dr. Kabre is the Lurie Children’s pediatric surgery representative to the Midwest Pediatric Surgery Consortium, a research partnership involving pediatric surgery investigators from 11 academic children’s hospitals in the Midwest who are passionate about studying surgical diseases and their management in children. The partnership was formed with the mission of advancing the practice of pediatric surgery through high-quality, multi-institutional clinical studies focusing on high-impact surgical diseases with the goals of improving patient outcomes, developing best practices, and reducing health care cost.

Lurie Children's provides healthcare regardless race, color, religion (creed), sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin (ancestry), or disability. Financial assistance for medically necessary services is based on family income and hospital resources, and is provided to children under age 21 whose primary residence is in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Lurie Children's complies with applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or disability.